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FRANKLIN DENIS TINSLEY
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
March 25, 1948 – October 6, 1968
Service recordFranklin Denis Tinsley, of Suffolk, New York, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on October 6, 1968, in Hua Nghia Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 41W, Line 21 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 41W · Line 21
Names are inscribed in the order of loss, starting at Panel 1E at the apex and ending at Panel 1W. At the Memorial, find the panel number at the base and count down from the top line.
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 101 AIRBORNE DIV
- Born
- March 25, 1948
- Home of record
- Suffolk, New York (Suffolk County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- October 6, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Hua Nghia
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
21 names on the Wall carry the date October 6, 1968; three of them were lost in Hua Nghia Province. In October 1968, 821 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 32 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 41W, Line 21
- RAYMOND RODRIGU HERNANDEZSergeant · October 6, 1968
- LARRY LYLE WARBISPrivate First Class · October 6, 1968
- JOHN KEVIN ALLAIREPrivate First Class · October 7, 1968
- DEAN L BEACHMajor · October 7, 1968
Same unit, same day
- STEVEN DALE PERRYSergeant · Panel 41W, Line 19
- RICHARD DURAND STEVENSSpecialist Four · Panel 41W, Line 20
From Suffolk
- RONALD MICHAEL VIVONACorporal · April 6, 1968
- HOWARD THOMAS LENHARDLance Corporal · October 5, 1969
Source. U.S. Department of Defense, Defense Casualty Analysis System, Vietnam Conflict Extract Data File (as of April 29, 2008), Records of the Office of the Secretary of Defense, Record Group 330, National Archives (NAID 2240992). Panel and line as recorded in that file. This page presents the official record and its historical context; no biography has been written for him yet. See something wrong? Report a correction.